NFL: Nnamdi Asomugha will sign a one-day contract and retire Friday

Pretty crazy how quickly he fell off. But, he was a great corner in Oakland. I know he's an artistic guy and wants to pursue that side of his life, probably acting or television in some capacity. I'm sure his wife (actress Kerri Washington) can help him get a foot in the door.

I guess you can say Deion got relatively few picks; however, his relatively few is way more than Nnamdi's extremely low total. There really is no comparison.

Deion averaged 3.79 interceptions per season. He played 14 seasons and sat out 3 seasons before coming back to play 2 years with the Ravens at age 37. He was also a part time player for a small amount of time during his prime years while he dabbled in baseball. He never had fewer than 2 interceptions in a single season and had an interception for every 3.55 games played and one for every 2.96 games started. And his relatively few interceptions is still enough to rank 24th in league history.

Nnamdi averaged 1.36 interceptions per season. He played 11 seasons. Eight of those picks came in one season. That really drags his average interceptions per season down if you take out that year, which is clearly the outlier. He had 5 seasons where he didn't record a single interception. He had 9 seasons where he had 1 or fewer INTs. He got an interception every 9.53 games and one every 8.27 starts. Nnamdi isn't ranked in the top 250 for career interceptions.

Make it relative to whatever you want, Deion got far more interceptions than Nnamdi. Whether it is totals or averages, Deion far outpaced Nnamdi.

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and neither of them were ever near the league lead in Picks. Now Deion was clearly avoided whenever possible; but Nmadi it was more of a case frankly that there was always a lousy CB to pick on instead of him. I really doubt he was ever truly a shut down corner or even close to it.

The number we need is what percentage of passes thrown sanders way were picks? Teams ignored the receiver he was on, I would guess his total percentage was probably is 15% of all passes his way were ints. There were games when he was in dallas that teams would throw to the other side exclusively.